Street-car



8 Sheets-Sheet 1.

F; B. BROWNELL.

, STREET GAR.

Reissued Nov; 29, 1892.

2 SheetsSheet 2.

P. B. BROWNELLU Reissued Nov. 29, 1892.

STREET GAR.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK n. BROWNELL, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI? STREET-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forminlpart of Beissued Letters Patent No.

Original No. 462,620, dated November 3,

i the following is a full,'.clear, and exact dedoors situated each side scription,- reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this spech fication. I p I Owing to the increased travel in street-cars and the greaterspee'd of such cars made possible by the use of cables and of electricity as a means of propulsion, has become necessary to provide for greater freedom of i ngress and egress. H'eretofore it has been customary to build street-cars with. a single sliding door at the middleef each end, with a'platform at ,each end having side step thereto. This form of construction is objectionable because of the tendencyof seats are filled to stand at or near th doorway both inside the car and on the platforms, so that passengers are often ohliged to get off the platforms to. allow passengers to pass-in or out. Thus. frequent delays occur, materially interfering with ,the speed of transit and mining accidentsto persons getting on and l 011' It, has been found necessary on streets having means to prevent passengers getting 01f or on a car upon the side next to the othertrack, so as to avoid the danger of passengers being run over by cars on the other track.

My invention relates to improvements that would mitigate, evils by the described construction and arrangement of doors by providing more room inside the car for passengers and by-concentrating that room in space at each and rather than subdivide it into a number of smaller spaces both within the earand upon the platforms. To eifect this I propose to have, instead of one door midway of. the end, two of the middle of the end, thus being located nearer the steps on each side of the platform. The door upon the side used for ingress and egress may be opened and closed as desired, while the door upon the other side may be fastened in a closed position. The position of the doorway invuse so near the edge of the platform would greatly facilitate ingress and" egress, as therewould leaving a passengers when the parallel tracks to have some if not entirely remedy, these 11,289, dated November 29, 1892.

1891. Application for reissue filed September 22, 1892. Serial No. 446,833-

belittle space upon the platform between the door and the steps, and,the;|naiu body of people standing within the car would be out of the wayofthe passenger getting on oroif. To make it practicable for passengers to pass through the doorways located as proposed in cars having seats on each side of the car and facing inward, it will be necessary to make tlie'scat shorterthan the inside of the car, space bet-ween the ends of the seat and end' walls of the car snflicient to allow a person to pass, freely in and out through the doorway. With this arrangement a greater number of standing passengers may be carried and with less inconvenience to and from persons passing in and out. The open or movable door would indicate clearly to passengers passing out thedirection to be taken.

Inthedrawings, Figure I isa horizontal seclion of a car havingdoors and platforms for passengers at othends. section having doors and platform for passengers at the rear end only.

The double ended car shown in Fig. I will be first described.

1 is the floor ofthe car; 2, the platforms; 3. the steps, and 4 the sides of the car. These may all have the usual or any-suitable construction.

5 are the ends of the car, having each two sliding doors 6, adapted to slide beside each other, so that either may be opened; but they cannot both be fully open at the same time It is intendedthat'the'one which is tempo- 'rarily or permanently out of use shall be fastened shut. V v t 7 are the seats, whose backs 8 are at the .sides 4 of the car and which thus face each other. The seats'do not extend to the end of the car, but between the ends of the seats and the car are-spaces 9,;giving easy access to the doorway that may be in use upon one side and standing room upon the other side. The corners 10 of the seats should be curved, so that they will not cause or clothing.

In the car shown in Fig. II the passenger ingress and egress is only at the rear end,and this end is constructed in the same manner as the ends oi the car .shown in Fig. I. The fore and of the car may" have the usual constrnotion.

Fig. II is a similar any injury to person 7 v the car.

I have described the doors 6 as adapted to slide side by side, and this is my preferred construction, as it is obvious that the doors may be wider and set nearer the sides of the car'in such case; but I do not desire to make this constructionessential, as the doors. maybe inade to open by sliding oxitwardlv. I The improvement, as far as relates to" the -two doors 6, may be applied toa ear having a row of transverse'sea'tsupon each side by setting the end seats farther from the endsot (See dotted lines in Fig. IL) I .I claim as new and of my inventionv '1. 'Astreet-oarhavingat the'end two sliding doors, each opening from its side of the car "towardthe other door and each adapted to provide means of ingress and egress at the side of the platform from which it is moved, thereby providing for the passengers getting on and off the platform, at the sideadjacent to the open door, substantially as set forth.-

2, The oombinatiomin a'street-ear having a platform and two sliding doors at the end for ingress and egress otpassengers, of the seats extending endwise along the sides of the car and having ends at a distance from the ends of the car-body, leaving spaces 9 between the seats and doors, substantially as-and for the purposes set forth.

1 3. Thefeombination, in a street-car having an end platform, of two doors 6 at the end, sliding side by side, an'dseats7, extending endwise in the car and shorter'than the inside length car, s b t i y as and the P P BSet forth, a I

4. The combination, in a street car, of two door-s6 at one end of the ear, the platform 2,

and seats extending endwi'se along the sides v ofthe ear and having rounded ends at a distance from the ends of the ear-body, leaving spaces 9' forthe passage of passengers, substantially as set forth. v v

- v FREDERICK B. BROWNELL, In presence of' v ALBERT M. EBERSOLE, En. S. KNIGHT. 

